Ischyros

Marcus: OPEN

Laughing, Amber rolled her eyes at the boy. Normally she was smart enough to get out of the jocks ways when they played their dumb games, but she was too busy wrestling the books out of her locker to react completely, “I’m perfectly alright, but dude, next time someone says that just drop your bags and stand on those. Simple.”

“Would it be a totally dumb idea to skip out on psychology today?” Avery asked, leaning against her locker. “I so don’t feel like sitting through class today, especially since it’s a lecture day,” she said, sighing, while turning around and grabbing her books she’d need for her first few classes of the day. 

“Lecture day is the best day.” Amber replied as she leaned against the locker next to the other girls, disregarding getting her own books just yet, “You get to stare into space and slowly feel your brain melting out of sheer boredom.”

“Oh c’mon!” Amber sighed dramatically, giving her the best smile she could muster as she approached her. True, she could find someone else to cover her ass the next time she skipped PE, but asking Hayley was getting to be a form of entertainment, “All you gotta say is I’m retaking a test or something!”

Rebecca stared down at the work spread out in front of her on the table, reading the same sentence for at least the fifth time and still not sure what it meant. She let out a tired and exasperated breath, leaning away and rubbing at her temples. The girl was usually able to focus and comprehend assignments or whatever task was at hand with determination, but her mind just wasn’t computing or cooperating with her. “I’m going to completely fail this assignment… Might as well jump ship now while you still can…” she said to the other that had the unfortunate luck to be partnered with her. “I mean it, I’m a lost cause, leave this man behind.” 

“Oh c’mon, it can’t be that hard.” Amber grinned at the girl easily, leaning back in her chair as she studied her. She wasn’t one for school assignments personally, but she needed to get a decent grade in this class so it seemed she was stuck actually giving some effort,“Not that I’ve looked at it yet but...” She shrugged, “We got this! We’re the dream team here.”